I have a very 80′s shower. I hate the pink/rose color. I have tiled the bathroom floor with a nice porcelain tile. I was watching HGTV and they used these pebble tiles and tiled right over an old marble countertop. I was wondering if I can tile over my standing shower using these pebble tiles. [...]

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A mosaic tile floor is designed in the shape of a trapezoid 30 ft wide at the base & 15 feet wide @ the top. The tiles, 12 inches by 12 inches, are to be placed so that each sucessive row contains one less tile than the row below. How many tiles will be required?

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The lower class Romans (plebeians) lived in apartment houses, called flats, above or behind their shops. Even tradesmen might have chosen to live in an apartment-building compound over their store, with maybe renters on the upper stories. Their own apartments might be quite roomy, sanitary and pleasant, occasionally with running water. But others were not [...]

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I am trying to find out the name of the show that was either on TLC or HGTV that showed these awesome bathrooms. There was one that was covered floor to ceiling with small glass mosaic tiles, and one that had glass walls over looking a mountain cliff. I can't remember the show and can't [...]

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I want to put a tile mosaic in my sink. It looks terrible and I dont want to use that spray on porcelain repair that's for tubs and sinks. The overflow hole has rusted through so I want to plug it, cover the hole completely and mosaic tile the bowl, leaving just the drain hole. [...]

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I have some dried varnish type stuff on my tile bathrrom floor. I also have some drain unclogger that is concentrated sulfuric acid. Can I use the acid to dissolve the varnish on the tile? Also, how can I dilute the acid to clean the rest of the tile? I was using the drain opener [...]

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Just knocked down a wall between two rooms which will make a large kitchen area. There are already mosaic tiles on the floor in pretty good order. They’ve been there since the 1950′s and probably (like the bathroom) are on a compacted type of very fine sand (any idea on the name of this stuff?) [...]

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I’m completely remodeling my bathroom and luckily have access to very discounted natural stones and tiles like granite, marble, onyx, travertine, mosaics and what not (no glass tiles tho)…. I need to decide by Monday what I want to do since I have a contractor coming in…. It is full bathroom; however, it is relatively [...]

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I want to lay a mosaic tile floor in my kitchen (which has asbestos tiles) and continue into my dining room (which has an already existing tile floor). There is about an 1/8" difference between the two floors (one leading into the other). What is the best prep before I begin?

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we pulled up the few tiles and have scraped the thinset upoff the concrete floor…we dont want to buy a 20 or 50 pound bag of thinset to replace just a few tiles..What is the best product for this type of application they sell soo many diferent types of pre-mixed acrylic thinset..which should we use….OH [...]

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